Nostrums and quackery : articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Nostrums and quackery : articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the credulous purchaser not only loses the sum invested in a worthless remedy, but in addition may suffer serious injury by reason of the fact that he is led to neglect the proper treatment of his disease. “The medicine comprising the treatment furnished by the party in question for the cure of cancer were subjected to analysis by this department, and the results obtained were briefly as follows: 1. Presceiption No. 0: A simple alterative prep- aration somewhat resembling syrup of sarsaparilla, 2. Prescription No. 4: Found to consist of almond oil mixed with cotton seed oil and a small quantity of oil of bitter almond. 3. Prescription No. 120; Compressed tablets com- posed of talcum and sugars. 4. Prescription No. 90: Vaseline. 5. Prescription No. 220: A preparation resembling Cataplasma Kaolini, U. S. P. [Clay poultice.] Book on Cancer Free. When hundreds of perfectly, re- liable people gladly testify that they have been rescued from death’s door by Dr. Bye’s Combination Oil Treat- ment for Cancer and similar dreadful diseases, it is surely worth while to Investigate the methods and results of this treatment. Any one may ob- tain free of charge a finely illustrat- ed book describing ‘this simple and efficacious treatment, simply by writ- ing Dr. W. O. Bye, Ninth and Broad^ way, Kansas City, Mo. C One of W. 0. Bye’s advertisements. This appeared in the BiUical Recorder, April 21, 1909. The same issue _ contained advertisements of “cures” for cancer, dropsy, rheumatism, tuber- culosis, deafness, piles, influenza, malaria, etc. “The results of this analysis show that the treatment fur- nished by Dr. Bye cannot by any possibility accomplish the results claimed for it in the cure of cancer. The agents of which it is composed have long been known to the medical profession but notwithstanding this fact no reliable authority makes the claim that, taken singly or together, they can be relied on for the cure of cancer. On the contrary, the fact is generally recognized among medical authorities that there is' no substance or mixture of substance known at the present time which can be relied on for this purpose. “In view of these facts it would appear that the business of the party in question was not conducted in good faith, but